NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 435M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 35W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 435M
+278%
0.227 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 400M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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635 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.360 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.440 GTexel/s
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-
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60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
226.6 GFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
18.88 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
35W
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-
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GF106
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
N11E-GE-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
238 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
